Calendars
One-by-one my seven calendars appear.
They are the basis of my Monthly Calendar Reports on this here blog.
Anyone who reads this blog knows they’re not really calendars.
Seven calendars is a bit much. (I get negatory put-downs from my siblings.)
What they are instead is wall-art, that changes every month, with pictures of interest to me.
My Motorbooks Musclecars calendar arrived yesterday (Thursday, October 27, 2011), my sixth.
One more to go, my Norfolk Southern Employees’ Photography-Contest calendar, ordered snail-mail.
It usually is advertised in my December Trains Magazine.
—I’m a railfan, and have been since age-2. I’m 67.
Nearly all the others were ordered online.
Except my favorite, my Audio-Visual Designs black and white All-Pennsy Calendar, which I’ve got since about 1968.
At that time it was my only calendar, and was comprised of photos by Pennsy steam photographer Don Wood of north Jersey.
Audio-Visual Designs is apparently now a shoestring operation.
Its founder died, and the business was sold to someone else.
Their black and white All-Pennsy Calendar has been published annually for years, although there were a couple times in the ‘90s when it wasn’t.
The off-years were apparently right after my stroke, so I don’t remember not getting it.
But I went back to ordering the Audio-Visual Designs Calendar — and they went back to publishing, although expanded beyond photographer Wood, who has also died.
I ordered it last July, and it came only two weeks ago.
The Audio-Visual Designs black and white All-Pennsy Calendar is always the slowest coming.
Apparently they wanna be absolutely sure my check clears before shipping — a shoestring operation.
And they only publish not many.
I get a flyer, and they quickly sell out.
I order two. One for myself, and one as a Christmas present for my nephew in northern Delaware, also a Pennsylvania Railroad geek like me.
His grandfather worked on GG1 electric locomotives in Pennsy’s Wilmington (DE) shops.
As you all know, I consider the Pennsylvania Railroad’s GG1 electric (4-6+6-4) the greatest railroad locomotive of all time.
To repeat all that again would just bore constant-readers.
If you need clarification click this link and read the “All-Pennsy color calendar” entry (the third entry). —A GG1 picture precedes it.
Usually the first calendar-order I get is my Ghosts WWII warbirds calendar, usually by e-mail in July with ordering links.
I then have to get hopping with my All-Pennsy color calendar.
That’s also online, Tide-Mark Publishing, and quickly sells out. A few years I missed out.
A few months later I get a catalog from Oxman Publishing, and it has my Oxman Hotrod Calendar, which I can also order online.
I used to also get another train-calendar; perhaps prints of watercolors by artist Howard Fogg.
But I stopped.
Kodak had a system for doing your own calendar with your own pictures.
So I tried that.
Their calendars were incredibly impressive, so I switched; a calendar with my own pictures.
It’s usually my best-looking calendar.
I get incredibly good quality with my current camera, a Nikon D100, and I’m taking pictures with railfan Phil Faudi (“FOW-dee;” as in “wow”) down near Altoona (“al-TUNE-uh;” as in the name “Al”) PA on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Division over the Allegheny mountains.
Allegheny Crossing includes the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Horseshoe Curve (the Mighty Curve), another treatment that would bore constant-readers.
Again, if you need clarification, click this link, and read the first part. A picture of the Mighty Curve appears very early therein. Read the surrounding section.
Faudi is another topic that would bore constant-readers.
Again, click this link if you need clarification, and go down toward the end of the post. That explains Phil.
One more calendar to go: my Norfolk Southern Employees’ Photography-Contest calendar.
All my calendars are great to look at, and even impress my younger macho blowhard brother-in-Boston, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say.
My own calendar is so impressive I send it to people — and my brother loudly demanded a copy.
He’s probably showing it off to his coworkers.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered.
• “Howard Fogg “ (“fog”) is a famous railroad artist.
They are the basis of my Monthly Calendar Reports on this here blog.
Anyone who reads this blog knows they’re not really calendars.
Seven calendars is a bit much. (I get negatory put-downs from my siblings.)
What they are instead is wall-art, that changes every month, with pictures of interest to me.
My Motorbooks Musclecars calendar arrived yesterday (Thursday, October 27, 2011), my sixth.
One more to go, my Norfolk Southern Employees’ Photography-Contest calendar, ordered snail-mail.
It usually is advertised in my December Trains Magazine.
—I’m a railfan, and have been since age-2. I’m 67.
Nearly all the others were ordered online.
Except my favorite, my Audio-Visual Designs black and white All-Pennsy Calendar, which I’ve got since about 1968.
At that time it was my only calendar, and was comprised of photos by Pennsy steam photographer Don Wood of north Jersey.
Audio-Visual Designs is apparently now a shoestring operation.
Its founder died, and the business was sold to someone else.
Their black and white All-Pennsy Calendar has been published annually for years, although there were a couple times in the ‘90s when it wasn’t.
The off-years were apparently right after my stroke, so I don’t remember not getting it.
But I went back to ordering the Audio-Visual Designs Calendar — and they went back to publishing, although expanded beyond photographer Wood, who has also died.
I ordered it last July, and it came only two weeks ago.
The Audio-Visual Designs black and white All-Pennsy Calendar is always the slowest coming.
Apparently they wanna be absolutely sure my check clears before shipping — a shoestring operation.
And they only publish not many.
I get a flyer, and they quickly sell out.
I order two. One for myself, and one as a Christmas present for my nephew in northern Delaware, also a Pennsylvania Railroad geek like me.
His grandfather worked on GG1 electric locomotives in Pennsy’s Wilmington (DE) shops.
As you all know, I consider the Pennsylvania Railroad’s GG1 electric (4-6+6-4) the greatest railroad locomotive of all time.
To repeat all that again would just bore constant-readers.
If you need clarification click this link and read the “All-Pennsy color calendar” entry (the third entry). —A GG1 picture precedes it.
Usually the first calendar-order I get is my Ghosts WWII warbirds calendar, usually by e-mail in July with ordering links.
I then have to get hopping with my All-Pennsy color calendar.
That’s also online, Tide-Mark Publishing, and quickly sells out. A few years I missed out.
A few months later I get a catalog from Oxman Publishing, and it has my Oxman Hotrod Calendar, which I can also order online.
I used to also get another train-calendar; perhaps prints of watercolors by artist Howard Fogg.
But I stopped.
Kodak had a system for doing your own calendar with your own pictures.
So I tried that.
Their calendars were incredibly impressive, so I switched; a calendar with my own pictures.
It’s usually my best-looking calendar.
I get incredibly good quality with my current camera, a Nikon D100, and I’m taking pictures with railfan Phil Faudi (“FOW-dee;” as in “wow”) down near Altoona (“al-TUNE-uh;” as in the name “Al”) PA on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Division over the Allegheny mountains.
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Again, if you need clarification, click this link, and read the first part. A picture of the Mighty Curve appears very early therein. Read the surrounding section.
Faudi is another topic that would bore constant-readers.
Again, click this link if you need clarification, and go down toward the end of the post. That explains Phil.
One more calendar to go: my Norfolk Southern Employees’ Photography-Contest calendar.
All my calendars are great to look at, and even impress my younger macho blowhard brother-in-Boston, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say.
My own calendar is so impressive I send it to people — and my brother loudly demanded a copy.
He’s probably showing it off to his coworkers.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered.
• “Howard Fogg “ (“fog”) is a famous railroad artist.
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